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Definition of Othonna
1. Noun. A South African plant of the genus Othonna having smooth often fleshy leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Othonna
Literary usage of Othonna
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by William Curtis (1795)
"С othonna PECTINATA. WORMWOOD LEAVED othonna. Cl of s and Order. ... and Synonyms,
othonna ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Only one species of othonna appears to be in general cultivation, and this has
no established vernacular name in this country, although it is sometimes ..."
3. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by John Sims (1818)
"( ) othonna DENTICULATA. TOOTH-LEAVED AFRICAN RAG-WORT. Class and Order. ...
Hort. Kew. ed. I. 3. p. 276. ed. Diet. 3. othonna denticulata ; foliis ..."
4. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1804)
"othonna PINNATA. PINNATED othonna, or AFRICAN RAGWORT. ... The bulbous-rooted
othonna is (aid to put on as great a variety of appearances as any plant ..."
5. Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa by William John Burchell (1822)
"It has very much the manners of the common domestic sparrow of Europe, and seems
also to Species of othonna, one of which is, ..."
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